I just have to write down what Ava said this evening.
We were both in the kitchen after Cadence was in bed. I was making chocolate chip cookies and Ava’s "helping" eventually turned into a role playing game involving measuring implements: 1 cup, 1/2 cup, 1 tablespoon, 1/2 tablespoon, 1 teaspoon and 1/4 teaspoon. As any logical 3 year old would, Ava made the two biggest ones Grandpa and Grandma, then came Mommy and Tabitha and the two smallest were Ava and Cadence.
I was only half paying attention as I bustled about the kitchen loading the dishwasher and cleaning the breakfast nook in between waves of fresh cookies, but eventually something she kept saying over and over caught my attention. She was telling Tabitha and Cadence that they had to stay "over there" because only "dolts" could be "over here." "You're not a dolt, you stay over there, Cadence." It took me a while to figure out that she was differentiating children from adults - or "dolts."
Since I know that not everyone in the world was an English major, below is Mirriam-Webster's official definition of "dolt":
I think sometime I’ll have to teach Ava that honesty is not always the best policy... :) She’s too smart for her own good and she doesn’t even know it.
